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Escape Into the Light of Darkness
By: Aurora Hargreaves
Chapter 1: Nightmare
She ran with the speed her legs could carry her. Running front the horrible creature that pursued her: a vampire. Her white dress and ebony black hair were almost completely soaked in blood.
Her blood, the vampire was after her blood... not caring if she died at all. The bloodthirsty beast only wanted to consume her! Still, she was only seventeen, as she ran; the air wasn't reaching her lungs, making it hard to breathe. As she reached the lake, the strong wind ruffled her hair, causing her to be found by the vampire, who at the moment was retracing its steps trying to find her. Finally, it caught up to her, seeing its fangs and haunting amber-red eyes…those eyes that scared her, she didn't want to see them at all! Now, its marble white hands were around her throat as she tried to flee, she couldn't move, because she was paralyzed by her fear.
This girl wished that this had never happened, as she tried to fight, she wanted the person who had been by her side ever since the last person in her family who understood her left her forever, when she knew that she had died, never to return with a warm smile to make her life brighter. That was when she saw blood…
Sweat ran down her forehead was she tied up her waist length ebony hair and laid back down on her bed that was covered with silk sheets. Hearing her heart pounding in her ears, she tried to calm down, but nothing was working, as she turned on the lamp on her bedside table, that illuminated her pitch black room. Still, in the stillness of the house, someone was walking quietly to her room, and slowly opened the door as she turned off the lights. Then someone flipped on the switch by the door to re-illuminate the dark room.
A boy at the age of eighteen, with long dark ebony hair, golden emerald-amber eyes, who wore the clothes of a manservant, stood by the doorway awaiting an order from his mistress, who at the moment was trying to get a grip over her racing heart and he knew that in every nightmare that she had ever since she was a child, at the end of every one of them he wasn't there to save her, like he always should have.
His mistress looked up with a puzzled expression on her face. "Are you alright Claire?" She asked.
"Yes, I'm fine Lady Aurora," he replied. "But are you okay?" He wondered out loud as the look in his eyes grew frantic, searching for her answer.
"I'm alright Claire, so you don't have to worry about me, but I do have one request." She whispered to him as he walked towards her.
"What's your request Lady Aurora?" He inquired.
"Please stay with me tonight Claire," she answered, as he sat down on her bed, she lay down and finally sleep claimed her when she stared into Claire's amber eyes. Claire held her hand as she slept, because she needed to know that he wouldn't ever leave her side.
Still, he swore to keep her safe ever since the day of the "operation," when she lost the one person in her family that understood her. This was why he vowed to protect the innocence that he saw in her eyes.